Health sector entities have yet another ransomware group to worry about, warn U.S. federal authorities. Trinity, a relatively new sophisticated threat actor, is hitting a variety of critical industries, including healthcare, said the Department of Health and Human Services in an advisory.
Federal regulators have hit a California physician services organization with a $240,000 HIPAA civil penalty following an investigation into three ransomware attacks that occurred within a three-week span in early 2018, compromising the sensitive information of 85,000 patients.
In the latest weekly update, ISMG editors discussed recent international law enforcement efforts against Russian cybercrime organizations, the latest U.S. cybersecurity bill aimed at protecting the healthcare sector and key takeaways from ISMG's Canada Summit.
A misconfigured web server and the exposure of sensitive information for nearly 600,000 prison inmates in 2022 will cost medical claims processing company CorrectCare $6.49 million to settle a consolidated proposed class action lawsuit, according to court records.
A clinic in Hawaii is notifying 124,000 patients that their health data was potentially compromised in a May hack. LockBit 3.0 claims to have published the stolen records on its data leak site in June - months before global authorities this week disclosed a crackdown on the cybercrime gang.
California-based Graybill Medical Group physicians' practice says it's splitting up with its affiliate practice, Palomar Medical Group, which handles a variety of management services, because the firm allegedly provided an "inadequate" response to a cyberattack detected in May.
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University Medical Center, a Lubbock, Texas-based public health system that includes a level-one trauma center and a children's hospital, is diverting ambulances and working to restore an IT outage affecting some patient services in the wake of a ransomware attack late last week.
India's leading private health insurer Star Health Insurance suffered a major data breach in August, but the company's prolonged silence over the incident exposes businesses' placing a priority on protecting their reputation over their customers' concerns for data security and privacy.
Healthcare organizations have faced 21% of all cyberattacks since 2023, as cybercriminals use stolen data and operational disruptions to pressure providers into paying a ransom. Experts advise healthcare firms to move beyond EDR tools and adopt a holistic security strategy.
Two U.S. senators are proposing stricter cyber mandates for the healthcare sector. The bill provides funding to help hospitals adopt enhanced requirements, but lifts HIPAA enforcement fine caps and threatens executives with prison time for falsely attesting their organizations' compliance in audits.
Threat actors tracked as "Vanilla Tempest" - and also known as Vice Society - appear to be changing up the ransomware they use to attack on U.S. healthcare organizations. Likely in a move to avoid detection, the ransomware-as-a-service group has shifted to INC Ransom malware, according to Microsoft.
Ransomware attacks are declining across many sectors - but not in healthcare, where an ongoing surge is reaching a four-year high in incidents, according to new research from security firm Sophos, which surveyed 5,000 IT leaders across 15 sectors and 14 countries between January and February.
The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has updated the scope of the MOVEit hacking breach last year, telling a sister agency that the software supply chain attack affected more than 3.1 million individuals - about three times the number of victims disclosed publicly earlier this month.
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